#gavin brown

[power-chords]

There can be no performance without the script — a script is always necessary. As I mentioned above, this seems to establish a paradigm of linear progression: script to performance. However, drawing upon Turner's thesis, it is possible to understand performance as standing in for the script if we construct a cyclical paradigm. If performance constantly recasts the script, altering and reconstituting it, then a performance necessarily functions to script following performances: performance becomes a "cultural actor." This is a critical point for it captures much of the heuristic value that the concept "performance" offers to scholars. Ultimately, performance represents a dialectical form of activity. Drawing upon the terminology used by Dell Hymes, a performance represents the repeatable because it is action which follows a script (scripted action) but performance also represents the emergent because in action a script may undergo some degree of reconstitution which then alters further performances and, by corollary, cultural ideas and beliefs (Hymes 1975, p. 13). Such a cyclical paradigm establishes performance as a cultural vehicle of transformation. When we enter the world of performance, we are witnessing the production and reproduction of culture; in performance, a culture lives and moves.

—Gavin Brown, "Theorizing Ritual as Performance: Explorations of Ritual Indeterminacy," Journal of Ritual Studies, Vol. 17, No. 1 (2003)

[cdaae]

Kayleigh Marven and Gavin Brown

[ohmelinoe]

Found (2012), dir. Scott Schirmer

[gregdotorg]

When they bought Rirkrit Tiravanija's work, FEAR EATS THE SOUL (2011), the billionaires behind Glenstone gave away the screenprinted t-shirts in exchange for donations to a local non-profit, and then had their staff come up with "a rotating menu of soups" to serve visitors. Until COVID shut the whole thing down in March 2020. There is now a book about the project, and the core of it is the experience of the museum guides who "performed" the work as part of their dayjob. Plus the recipes.

[white-cat-of-doom]

A convergence of Cats meet in the audience.

Sam Brown as Munkustrap, Emma Johnson as Cassandra, Gavin Eden as Skimbleshanks, and Alice Oberg as Demeter.

International Tour in Shenzhen, October 2024.

[queensoybean0724]

I love Clancy (aka Hank Anderson!)

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Leverage 3x7 - "The Gone Fishin' Job"

[sun-ni-day]

9-1-1 5x10 Wrapped in red

[vivianbernadetteaurora]

Celebrity couples that once were part two 

[radlyradar]

[pedroam-bang]

A Bridge Too Far (1977)

[bluhjeans]

this is so dumb but im giggling to myself

[bi-polar-geminii]

ngl, im starting to get real tired of looking to see cool and different designs (not self inserts) of the listeners only to have them all be drawn as different genres of white women

[ohmelinoe]

・❥・・❥・・❥・・❥・・❥・・❥・・❥・・❥・・❥・・❥・・❥・

Found (2012), dir. Scott Schirmer

[faulknercore]

Gavin Ellis layouts !! ꒰ requested by @ anon ! ┆ they turned out so good tbh ꒱

[white-cat-of-doom]

More focused today, she still cannot help but paw at something fun in front of her.

Rhianne Alleyne as Bombalurina, Gavin Eden as Skimbleshanks, and Sam Brown as Munkustrap.

International Tour in Xi'an; November 2024.